Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions. Centuries ago everything was manufactured by hand.

Hammer 8

Hammer Company Operations Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They’re “traditional” matchmaker businesses that have been operating platforms for connecting different groups of customers. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Instead, smart organizations are driving analytics to an even deeper level within business processes— to make real-time operational decisions , on a daily basis. These operational analytics are embedded, prescriptive, automated, and run at scale to directly drive business decisions.

Hammer 8

Hammer Company Operations Process 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2018

In the Irvine, California office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise to define collective norms. According to Price, this code was directly responsible for the firm being ranked number one on Orange County’s Best Places to Work list. Bryan Cave’s Code of Civility.

Team 8

Team Franchising Hammer Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use. Dozens of the world’s largest companies use “shadow prices” to model how a carbon tax would affect their investment decisions. ” The Challenges. ”

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. An integrated strategy machine is the collection of resources, both technological and human, that act in concert to develop and execute business strategies. Design appropriate to the aim.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. Lean proposes a “test and measure” process of product development. But what is lost? Leverage A/B testing to compare variations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8